Where does Health Resort Medicine Rank within Modern Medicine

Journal/Book: SITH Societé Internationale de Technique Hydrothermale - News - Actualities N° 3 Septembre 1994. 1994;

Abstract: Pratzel Helmut G. President of the lnternational Society of Medical Hydrology and Climatology (ISMH) Institut für Medizinische Balneologie München Balneology and Health Resort Medicine Balneology is the science of the remedies of earth water and climate. Balneotherapy is performed as a complex cure measure together with other comprehensive therapy methods using these remedies for bathing drinking and inhalation under the influence of climatotherapeutic factors. Health resort medicine is the modern balneology. The tradition of the health resorts is complex; in addition to the medical field it has also been determined by intellectual and cultural history economy philosophy and sociology. Balneotherapy has existed for many millennia. Even today we can see how balneotherapy is practised by the population as self medication especially in many parts of the Third World where natural remedies and therapies in particular the water of mineral springs rank high within folk medicine. Spas and health resorts are today ecological niches for natural medical care of wide sections of the population. The origins of a health resort medicine organized worldwide are in Great Britain. On 9th December 1921 the "International Society of Medical Hydrology" with 71 members from 13 nations was founded by Dr. Fortescue Fov. London at the meeting of the "Royal Society of Medicine". The British Dr. Fortescue Fox was elected first president. He was the first editor of "Archives of Medical Hydrology". He also founded the "lnternational Committee on Rheumatism" of the lSMH ...

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